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Kibra is one of six sub-counties in Kenya with an active measles outbreak.
Kibra is one of only six sub-counties in Kenya with an active measles outbreak, according to the World Health Organization's Kenya health emergencies situation report.
The other five are Dadaab in Garissa, Wajir North, Mandera South, Kilifi South and Galole in Tana River. Kibra is the only one in Nairobi, and the only urban one on the list.
The outbreak began nationally in November 2025. By the reporting week of 21 to 28 June there had been 466 cases across seven counties, 77 of them confirmed in a laboratory, with one death.
The age pattern is the part worth attention. 56% of cases – 252 of them – were aged 10 or above. Measles concentrated in older children points to a gap in immunity among children vaccinated years ago or missed altogether, rather than a problem with newborn coverage.
The report does not give a case count for Kibra. It records that transmission is active there and no more. It also lists no response actions for measles – no catch-up campaign, no vaccination drive.
The situation report is a snapshot from late June, so the current position in Kibra is unknown. KNN has asked Nairobi County Health and the Ministry of Health's disease surveillance division for the Kibra figures.
For context on urban immunisation: a study published in February in PLOS Global Public Health found that in Nairobi's Korogocho and Viwandani settlements, the first measles vaccine dose was given on time for 84.2% of children – the weakest of the vaccines examined.
No equivalent study has been done in Kibera.
This story was put together by K N N from material first published by World Health Organization.
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Kibra is one of only six sub-counties in Kenya with an active measles outbreak, according to the World Health Organization’s Kenya health emergencies situation report.
The other five are Dadaab in Garissa, Wajir North, Mandera South, Kilifi South and Galole in Tana River. Kibra is the only one in Nairobi, and the only urban one on the list.
The outbreak began nationally in November 2025. By the reporting week of 21 to 28 June there had been 466 cases across seven counties, 77 of them confirmed in a laboratory, with one death.
The age pattern is the part worth attention. 56% of cases — 252 of them — were aged 10 or above. Measles concentrated in older children points to a gap in immunity among children vaccinated years ago or missed altogether, rather than a problem with newborn coverage.
The report does not give a case count for Kibra. It records that transmission is active there and no more. It also lists no response actions for measles — no catch-up campaign, no vaccination drive.
The situation report is a snapshot from late June, so the current position in Kibra is unknown. KNN has asked Nairobi County Health and the Ministry of Health’s disease surveillance division for the Kibra figures.
For context on urban immunisation: a study published in February in PLOS Global Public Health found that in Nairobi’s Korogocho and Viwandani settlements, the first measles vaccine dose was given on time for 84.2% of children — the weakest of the vaccines examined.
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